BETWEEN HISTORY AND STORY (THE ADVENTURE OF REWRITING THE PAST CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LITERATURE)
BETWEEN HISTORY AND STORY (THE ADVENTURE OF REWRITING THE PAST CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LITERATURE)

Summary/Abstract: This article will explore three of the most representative contemporary novels on historical topic published in Romania after 2000 – Dulcea poveste a tristului elefant (Diana Adamek), Viaţa lui Kostas Venetis (Octavian Soviany) and Manuscrisul fanariot (Doina Ruşti). Starting from the assumption that such writings belong to a coherent and recognisable sub-genre (a category similar, in many respects, to the neo-historical fiction in vogue nowadays in the Anglo-Saxon area), we’ll try to identify and analyse those peculiarities which turn these novels in "exoticized" representations of the past, intended not only to question – as historiographic metafiction did – the constructiveness of any kind of narration, but also to ponder on collective memory’s unresolved legacies.

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